Yellow garden spiders are great for keeping your yard's unwanted insect population down, but what happens if they bite you or one of your pets?

A garden spider sits in the middle of it’s rain-covered web along Wesley Way on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 in Oakland, Calif. The light in the background was from a light in a parking garage.

Yellow garden spider on web with prey. - Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock There's no need to remove yellow garden spiders (Argiope aurantia) from your yard because they are a harmless arachnid to ...

Common Garden Spiders in North America Looking to learn spider facts, including which spiders are lurking in your garden? The ...

Let's talk about the web. Not the internet, but the spider web in the summer garden. That big web with the zig-zag in the middle. The black and yellow garden spider is often noticed because of its ...

Yellow garden spiders are easy to find across North America, particularly in sunny areas with plenty of vegetation. They love to set up their webs in gardens, meadows and fields, often in very ...

The black and yellow garden spider is often noticed because of its large size and its habit of building webs in gardens and grassy areas near houses. It is most typically found in tall grasslands.

As summer wanes, the most obvious and familiar of the webs we encounter — sometimes 2 feet across — is made by the black and yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia. Look for its web in weedy fields ...

Garden spiders like to build their webs near houses. Once they do, they tend to stay in the same spot for the duration of a season. Compared with other spiders that usually build webs in shrubs or ...

The black and yellow garden spiders and the golden silk spiders have been in North Carolina for a while, Bertone said. The Joro spider, on the other hand, is likely a brand new addition.

Few if any of our 650 spider species are more obvious than the beautiful black-and-yellow garden spider. The adult females are massive, with a leg span of 2½ inches.

NAME: Common garden spider, Araneus diadematus. Not to be confused with the less common and smaller yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia. FAMILY: Araneidae ...